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New Relic is Rails 3.1 ready, and if you have any New Relic questions, from simple 'how to' down to deep technical stuff, New Relic now has 'office hours' with their web app tuning gurus. A live weekly screen chat, you can show up with your own questions and get the help you need.

We also ran into Wayne Seguin of RVM fame, and got to talk to him about BDSM, a framework for maintaining and sharing server side scripts while exposing them through a consistent command line interface (CLI).

Starting to use coffeescript? Have some legacy javascript you don't want to rewrite just to get basically the same thing? Convert it to coffeescript with this tool. Its not perfect, but it might be easier for you to convert it and maintain the coffeescript from there rather than try to maintain a blend of coffeescript and javascript.

ZSH is an awesome shell; if you're still using bash, you should give it a try. This community-based set of shell configuration stuff can help bootstrap zsh from feel like 'just another bash' to feeling like a tool that reads your mind when you hit the tab key.

This week the release of ClojureScript seemed to overshadow the release of OSX Tiger (at least on my twitterstream). How do you test your cron logic? Patching ruby for fun and profit, a fair and balanced view on Redis, and making your ruby processes run forever... all that and more on today's Ruby5...